To pass a resolution providing for the investigation of a case involving the arrest of MR. W. Reid of new york in the district of columbia, and for a report con

On Jan 19, 1875, the House voted 187–45. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 108–43, Democrats 74–2, Others 5–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 45 members voted against their own party.

During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 187
No: 45
Did not vote: 72
Date: Jan 19, 1875

By party

Others5 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Republicans108 yes · 43 no · 53 didn’t vote
Democrats74 yes · 2 no · 18 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Thomas Rapier R-AL voted no
Alexander White R-AL voted no
Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
James Rush Lofland R-DE voted no
Andrew Sloan R-GA voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
William Henry Ray R-IL voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
Abram Comingo D-MO voted no
Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted no
Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO voted no
Albert Richards Howe R-MS voted no
Henry W. Barry R-MS voted no
William Alexander Smith R-NC voted no
John Wright Hazelton R-NJ voted no
Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY voted no
David Wilber R-NY voted no
William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY voted no
Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Soloman Biery R-PA voted no
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
James Dale Strawbridge R-PA voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA voted no
James Scott Negley R-PA voted no
William Sutton Moore R-PA voted no
Lemuel Todd R-PA voted no
Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC voted no
Roderick Randum Butler R-TN voted no
David Alexander Nunn R-TN voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI voted no
Philetus Sawyer R-WI voted no
John Marshall Hagans R-WV voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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